Miata Mailing List: November 1998, Message #895

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Ingrid,

Check your brake pads.  It sounds like you might be down the "squealer".
This is a little do-dah that is designed to contact the rotor and make a
terrible squealing sound when the brake pad reaches its service limit.  It
functions by freaking the owner out and sending him/her immediately to a
mechanic who inspects and replaces the brake pads.

Kevin Morrison and Spider '94R+
Tampa, Florida, and other places...
kevin@sunriders.com
http://www.mx5.net
Team Voodoo
Team Protomotive
Team Laguna Seca


From: solo@pitnet.net <solo@pitnet.net>
Subject: Bad grating sound

> I have a grating sound that:
>1. increases with increasing speed
>2. is unchanged when engine is in neutral
>3. gets increasingly worse the sharper a left turn I take
>4.  is unchanged by engine being warmed up
>5. may have been first heard when backing up about a week ago
>
>
>Recent events
>1. changed to winter tires
>2. wind storm dropped branches all over, I did drive over some, some were
>dragged
>
>Any ideas? TIA   Ingrid
>
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>solo   List manager- Puregold